Our doctoral students come from all walks of life—for instance, active-duty Naval test pilot Jonathon Parry, who just won an Assistant Naval Secretary award for top scientists and engineers. Learn more about Parry here:
awards
Faculty win FAA grant to provide high-tech learn-by-doing programs for aviation educators
Purdue Polytechnic is extending the learn-by-doing approach even further into the classroom, thanks to a new grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Read more:
Design and Innovation Challenge adds new award category, gives money to nearly-dozen student teams
Congratulations to the dozens of students who won money to fund their entrepreneurial endeavors during the spring 2024 Design and Innovation Challenge!
Purdue Teaching Academy appoints Newell, Turner from Engineering Technology
Congratulations to Brittany Newell and Matthew Turner, our engineering technology faculty who were just recently inducted into the Purdue University Teaching Academy for their excellence as classroom- and-lab educators.
Graduate students present research, awarded for advancing strategic initiatives
Purdue Polytechnic graduate students presented posters recapping their 2023-24 research projects at Stewart Center in late April. Students received award certificates for first, second and third place for each of the Polytechnic’s respective strategic research impact areas—i.e. Future Work and Learning, Holistic Safety and Security and Realizing the Digital Enterprise.
Computer Graphics professor named most distinguished faculty researcher by student organization
Paul Parsons from computer graphics technology got resoundingly positive feedback from students when he was named a "Favorite Faculty Member" by University Residences at Purdue. Read on to see it for yourself:
Truman Scholarship awards Polytechnic student for outstanding public service, leadership potential
Congratulations to Allison Boyd, an aeronautical engineering technology student who just became a 2024 Truman Scholar. Boyd joins a list of worldwide leaders who have been recipients, including Supreme Court justices, policy experts and public service heroes.
Technology Alumni Awards celebrate Polytechnic prestige, renewed alumni board, future goals
Twelve #PurduePolytechnic alumni received awards celebrating their noteworthy contributions to Purdue, their industries, and the world of technology as a whole.
PhD fellow earns Purdue Efficiency Award for organizational reforms in construction
Candice Sexton was awarded Purdue University's Efficiency Improvement awards for her systemic efforts in recruiting young women and girls in construction, and for immense support of an NSF entrepreneurial grant project.
Polytechnic faculty elevated to IEEE senior member status
Purdue Polytechnic's Byung-Cheol “B.C.” Min and Wenhai Sun are now senior members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which fosters researchers and technology engineers around the world.